Last week, California voters passed a ballot proposition legalizing medical marijuana. For some time, the main active ingredient in marijuana has been available as a prescription pill. Advocates of marijuana as an antidote to nausea of chemotherapy, migraines, the pain of arthritis and many other aliments say that smoked marijuana delivers more reliable and regulatable relief than the pill form. However, many physicians feel that smoking is harmful and marijauna should not be prescribed by doctors.
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